The estranged husband of the daughter of the governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, Inuwa Uba, has accused his wife, Asiya-Balaraba Ganduje, of allegedly carting away documents of some of his landed properties, cars and other things belonging to him.
He informed the Shariah court sitting at Filin Hockey, Kano that his wife allegedly broke into his house and carted away the documents, vehicles, keys and other properties.
The estranged husband, sought the return of his properties documents, vehicles and other valuable items as a condition to grant the divorce sought by his wife.
It could be recalled that, his wife, the governor’s daughter had asked the Court to grant her khul’i and dissolve her 16-year-old marriage as she is “fed up with the marriage”.
She offered to pay back the N50,000 dowry paid by her husband for the solemnisation of the marriage as prescribed in the conditions of the Khul’i form of divorce in which the woman sought for separation.
The husband reported that, the documents allegedly carted away by his wife were; a certificate of occupancy of House No. 5 Ballaveux Residence, Life Camp, Abuja; a certificate of occupancy of House No. 2 STB Quarters, off State Road, Kano and; a certificate of occupancy of No. 3 Tamandu Road, Kano.
Others include; title documents of ASIL Integrated Rice Mill, Gundutse, Zaria Road, Kano; title documents of many plots land in Kano and Potiskum, Yobe State and; a CCTV control system/decoder taken from No. 2 STB Quarters, Kano.
He added that, the vehicles also allegedly carted away by his wife are a Toyota Prado SUV 2017 model; Toyota Previa 2015 model and a Toyota Avensis 2019 model.
However, counsel to the wife, Ibrahim Nassarawa, denied the allegations against his client in a counter affidavit filed before the court.
The presiding Shari’ah Court judge, Abdullahi Halliru overruled the preliminary objection filed by Baba’s lawyer challenging the jurisdiction of the court and insisted that the case must proceed with the hearing.
However, the lawyer objected arguing that they are entitled to 15 days within which to appeal or not, but the judge overruled, saying Islamic law does not recognise the point of law he relied on.
The judge proceeded with the hearing and requested the lawyer to confirm whether N50,000 was paid to his client as dowry, which he disagreed that N50,000 was paid by his client as dowry.
He then sought the indulgence of the court for more time to get the actual amount paid.
The judge therefore gave the lawyer 30 minutes leave to contact his client and know the actual amount he paid to the plaintiff as dowry and reply to the claims.
After the 30 minutes leave given to the lawyer elapsed and failed to get his client on phone to ascertain the actual amount, the judge adjourned the case till January 19.
